Clara Pauline Bauder Loyd -- 2000

The Burlington Record, Burlington, Colorado
Thursday, August 24, 2000

      Former Burlington area resident Clara Pauline Bauder Loyd passed away Saturday, Aug. 12, 2000, at the Valley View Nursing Home in Craig at the age of 90.
     Clara was born on the family homestead northwest of Burlington on Dec. 13, 1909, to Andrew II and Christina Wall Bauder. She was the youngest of 13 children. Clara attended school at Columbine #3. She was baptized and confirmed at, Immanuel Lutheran Church near Bethune and remained a faithful lifetime member of the Lutheran faith, staying active until her health failed.
      Clara left the family farm in the fall of 1928 to work in Burlington as a seamstress and tailor, a profession in which she excelled extremely well. On Nov. 27, 1930 she joined the Comet Rebecca Lodge #123 and remained a lifetime member, receiving her 50-year jewel pin in June of 1980. In March of 1939 she took her elderly, parents into her home and cared for them until their deaths.
      Clara married Mack Loyd on Sept. 20, 1950, and a few years later they moved to Loveland, where she remained until 1991 at which time, because of failing health, she moved to Craig.
      She is survived by one sister, Bertha Castle of Roundup Mon.; sister-in-law Ruth Bauder of Burlington; stepson Gene Loyd and wife Helen of Craig and their four children – Gary, Mike, Judy and Jamey; a granddaughter, Debra Pollock of Denver; 8 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson; and a host of nieces, nephews and many friends.
      Clara was preceded in death by here parents, six brothers and five sisters, her husband Mack Loyd and step-daughter Barbara Pollock.
      Funeral services were held on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2000, at First St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Burlington at 10 a.m. with Pastor Wesley Dunbar officiating. Music was provided by organist Virginia Flatt and soloist Kerry Korsvoid singing "The Lord's Prayer" and "How Great Thou Art."
      Interment was in Fairview Cemetery in Burlington with Hendricks-Love Mortuary handling arrangements.
      Pallbearers were Tony Mangus, Mike Loyd, Ruben Schaal, Jay Feigal, Charles Bowland and Javan Jones.